Wow

It's been a while since I posted, but Taylor is here now, and we've been busy! We spent Monday shopping (and going to Schimpff's), Tuesday at the Aquatic Center, Wednesday was spent at home due to meetings for Josie's therapy (though we did manage to sneak in a trip to the library), yesterday we went to the riverfront and saw a free stage performance of High School Musical (there are two left, and they're free - 8:30 p.m. in Jeffersonville on the 14th & 15th), and today we went to the library again. We're bibliophiles, what can I say? Tonight we're going out to the girls' grandma's house to visit. Tomorrow is church, and then tomorrow night we're meeting friends and going back to see HSM stage play again :) It's been a busy week, but oh so much fun! We stopped at Meijer and got some caffeine free Cokes (Grace can't have caffeine) and some ice, and threw them in the blender to make "icees." :) How much better does it get than that?

Thursday edition of the Baker times

So anyway, I am totally loving my membership to paperbackswap.com. I have managed to get the first 4 (of 8) Sookie Stackhouse books through there (for FREE), and the best part is that all of them look brand new. I've also managed to procure Undead and Unwed (Queen Betsy, book 1), and hopefully it'll be winging its way into my greedy little hands this week. Plus I have an awesome bud who sent me two unexpected books which I got in the mail yesterday - YAY!!! Books = love.

Taylor will be here Sunday, which the girls are crazy excited about. I'm excited, too. After she gets here, we're spending an entire day at the Aquatic Center, which all the kids love... except for Josie... who doesn't care much for water when there's a possibility that her head might get wet. :/ We're also going to Schimpff's that week, as well as going out for sushi (just me, Gracie, & Taylor are doing that - Jason is taking Josie & Lexi up the street to McDonald's).

Anyhoo! I'm off to finish off my coffee and my book (Sleeping With the Fishes by the fantabulous Mary Janice Davidson) before Josie's OT comes today. Ta!

Re-eval

Today was Josie's one year re-evaluation with First Steps, as well as her first visit with her new speech therapist. She loved the new ST; talked up a storm and did everything she was asked to do. The re-eval went smoothly as well, though Josie said a TON of things I've never heard her say before. She was given a mirror, and the ST evaluating her said "What is that, Josie?" and Josie replied, "Picture me." My jaw dropped. Then they showed her a picture of a vacuum cleaner and asked what it was. She said "Macoom." Turkey! She also actually said her name! It used to come out as "yoshi" and today it was definitely Josie. She did so well, in fact, that she may not qualify for OT services anymore! What a testament to the ability of our wonderful OT! :) WTG Josie Nae!!!

52 books in a year

In keeping with a new goal to read 52 books in a year, this is what I've read so far (from Jan. 1 2008 thru June 2 2008). More to come. Additions as time allows.

1. Twilight, Stephenie Meyer
2. Mere Christianity, CS Lewis
3. Eat, Pray, Love, Elizabeth Gilbert
4. Grace In Thine Eyes, Liz Curtis Higgs
5. The 5 Love Languages, Gary Chapman
6. Shepherding a Child's Heart, Ted Tripp
7. 1984, George Orwell
8. From Dead to Worse, Charlaine Harris
9. Tithe, Holly Black
10. New Moon, Stephenie Meyer
11. Eclipse, Stephenie Meyer
12. Undead and Unwed, Mary Janice Davidson
13. Undead and Unemployed, Mary Janice Davidson
14. Undead and Unappreciated, Mary Janice Davidson
15. Undead and Unreturnable, Mary Janice Davidson
16. Undead and Unpopular, Mary Janice Davidson
17. Undead and Uneasy, Mary Janice Davidson
18. Club Dead, Charlaine Harris
19. Living Dead in Dallas, Charlaine Harris
20. No Rest for the Wicked, Kresley Cole
21. The Lady Grace Mysteries: Assassin, Patricia Finney
22. The Lady Grace Mysteries: Betrayal, Patricia Finney
23. The Lady Grace Mysteries: Conspiracy, Patricia Finney
24. The Lady Grace Mysteries: Deception, Patricia Finney
25. Dead Until Dark, Charlaine Harris

La la la la...

Some of my friends seem to be amazed that New Kids on the Block are getting back together. What? You mean not everyone stalks Joe McIntyre on the internet like I've been doing?? *innocent blink* My daughters have been making fun of me, and they don't know NKOTB from High School Musical. Yeah, right, like that's not lame! Sheah! Anyway, I have all of Joe's solo cds, and even one of Jordan's (not worth the $3 I dropped on it at Goodwill, proving once and for all that during all those arguments I had with Melissa back in jr. high: I WAS RIGHT! VICTORY IS MINE!!!! Joe has always been far superior!). I am surprised to see Jon back in the mix, after he had all those panic attacks. He was bordering on being Agoraphobic. Remember? I can't be the only one who remembers that... can I? Remember when VH1 did that "reuniting the band" show? Cuz they tried to do New Kids, and Jon, Danny, and Donny said no. Jon is heavy into real estate. Does anyone else think I know too much about this? Ahem.

Now that my superiority has been established (as if it wasn't before), how has everyone else's week been going? :D

Woooooooooooooo

Lexi lost one of her front teeth last night. It's weird to look at her and see that missing tooth, lol! I've joined paperbackswap.com and am LOVING it. So far I've mailed out 5 books (another one going out this week), and only 3 have been rec'd, but with those 3 credits I've gotten the first 3 Sookie Stackhouse books (Charlaine Harris' Southern Vampire Novels). I've already read them all, of course, but now I can proudly say I OWN them. w00t! Today I've got to run by the library and take back some books I've finished, and get the rest of my Mary Janice Davidson books - apparently they don't have them saved in the library's catalog by Author name, but when I did a search for the individual titles I was able to find 4 of the remaining 5 books I haven't read yet. The sad thing is that they won't last - I'll most likely have all 4 of them finished by tomorrow night. I read even faster than usual when I'm reading something I enjoy. (It took me ages to finish Little Women because I couldn't get into it, but I finished Harry Potter 6 & 7 within 3 hours of each other.) I actually just started a series of books meant for teenagers, because the librarian recommended them to Grace & Taylor, and I want to know what they're reading. Quite brilliant, actually - they're the Lady Grace mysteries by Grace Cavendish (pen name), and I'm reading book A (a stands for Assassin, B is for Betrayal, etc etc - I think the series is up to the letter F so far). We checked out A-D, so we have 4 to get through. I'm not quite halfway through A, but I fear that when I pick up the rest of my fun books today, this one will go on the back burner for a bit. Not to fear, I will finish it - probably Saturday. But Grace is reading book 1 of the Sisters Grimm, so she has no need for it yet, and Taylor won't be here for another week yet, so she won't need them free until June 8, which gives me plenty of time to read all 4 of them, and other books besides.

ANYWAY! I guess I'd better lay off the blogging for now - Josie needs to be changed, and I have to tidy up a bit - not to mention that I wanted to make some cupcakes for dessert tonight. :) Hope everyone is having a good Thursday!

boo!

It's been about a week since I last updated - sorry about that. Real life gets in the way of blogging sometimes, lol. Lexi graduated Kindergarten (*sniffle*), so that means that next year, I have a 1st grader and a 2nd grader.

We finally got off of our butts today and cleaned the family room, which sorely needed it. I made Pad Thai with shrimp for dinner, but wound up giving the girls only the noodles with parmesan cheese, while I had the Pad Thai. Spicy! I made a peach citrus cake for dessert, too. SO YUMMY. Tomorrow we might go to the dollar theatre and see the Spiderwick Chronicles - Grace has wanted to go since it came out, and we just never had time before.

Also, I just have to throw this out there - if you live in this area and like sushi, head over to Kobe and have some spicy tuna rolls. They're positively addicting! Like crack, only healthier! ;)